By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Digestive discomfort – whether it’s bloating after a heavy meal or the occasional bout of indigestion – can make anyone miserable.
While modern medicine offers effective treatments, there’s renewed interest in natural ways to support gut health. For centuries, herbs and spices have been used in traditional medicine for their digestive benefits, and modern science is beginning to back up some of these age-old remedies.
These five herbs and spices have been linked to better digestion. Here’s…
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By Andrew Nickson, Honorary Reader in the Department of International Development, University of Birmingham
Paraguay hosted the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a gathering of the global right, for the first time in mid-September. In attendance were members of US president Donald Trump’s inner circle, including his long-term foreign policy advisor Richard Grenell, and President Javier Milei of Argentina.
The Paraguayan president, Santiago Peña, gave a keynote address confirming the growing identification of his Colorado party administration with the global ultra-conservative movement. He
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By Tony Milligan, Teaching Associate, University of Sheffield
Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of a more curious sort. A race to be the first to send various objects up there. But why?
In December 2024, Buddhist monks from Japan attempted unsuccessfully to send a small temple on board a satellite into orbit. The rocket did make it more than 110km from Earth, making it the first time the Dainichi Nyorai (the Buddha of the Cosmos) and the mandala were…
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By Josh Bullock, Senior Lecturer Criminology and Social Sciences, Kingston University
Caroline Starkey, Associate Professor of Religion and Society, University of Leeds
At a Bristol social club, a psychic medium scans the room, inviting the spirit world into a space more often used for drinking and darts. The medium is talking to a small audience, mostly women.
She says she is giving them messages from their loved ones who have died. She says she is mentally communicating with a very young child in the spirit world. A teenager raises her hand – “Could it be my baby? I lost a baby last year” – and begins to sob.
A hush falls. Strangers cry. The medium comforts her and tells her that her lost baby is well, growing up in the spirit world…
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By Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation
This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.
You could tell me that China still gets most of its electricity from coal and is building more new coal power plants than anywhere else in the world. And you’d be right.
You could also tell me that China (with a sixth of the world’s population) is installing about half of the world’s new renewable energy. And you’d be right too.
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By Andrew Buzzell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order approving a deal that allows U.S. businesspeople to acquire ownership of TikTok.
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Autism expert Andrew Whitehouse speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how the diagnosis of autism has shifted since the 1990s and what’s that meant for autistic people.
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Thursday, October 2nd 2025
When the gates of Syria’s notorious Sednaya prison opened soon after the fall of the Assad regime last December, graffiti scrawled on the walls offered a frightening glimpse into what was widely known as the “human slaughterhouse”. “First day, severe beating,” one prisoner wrote.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to reports of the deaths of at least nine people, including six protesters and three police officers, and injuries to hundreds of others during ongoing protests in Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir which have taken place amid a communications blackout in the region, Babu Ram Pant, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for South Asia, said: […] The post Pakistan: Authorities must protect the right to peaceful protest and lift communications blackout amid Jammu & Kashmir protests appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Members of the military attend a meeting convened by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at Marine Corps Base Quantico, in Quantico, Virginia, September 30, 2025. © 2025 Kevin Lamarque/Reuters (Washington, DC) – Remarks by United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump at a joint address to top military leaders on September 30, 2025, raise grave concerns that the administration will seek to deploy combat forces in domestic law enforcement roles, Human Rights Watch said today. If implemented, these proposals would be in brazen violation…
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